TY - BOOK AU - Boustan,Raʻanan S. AU - Jassen,Alex P. AU - Roetzel,Calvin J. TI - Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity AV - BS680.V55 V56 2010eb U1 - 220.8/3036 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Violence in the Bible KW - Congresses KW - Violence KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - History of doctrines KW - Christianity KW - RELIGION / General KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 6-8, 2007 at the University of Minnesota; Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-264) and indexes; Introduction / Raʻanan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen, Calvin J. Roetzel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and violence : sectarian formation and eschatological imagination / Alex P. Jassen -- The eschatological arena : Roman violence in fantasies of the end times / Kimberly B. Stratton -- The language of war (2 Cor 10:1-6) and the language of weakness (2 Cor 11:21b-13:10) / Calvin J. Roetzel -- Violence as sign in the fourth gospel / Jennifer A. Glancy -- Clemency as cruelty : forgiveness and force in the dying prayers of Jesus and Stephen / Shelly Matthews -- Reconsidering the book and the sword : a rhetoric of passivity in rabbinic hermeneutics / Beth A. Berkowitz -- Christian martyrdom and the "dialect of the Holy Scriptures" : the literal, the allegorical, the martyrological / Margaret M. Mitchell -- Immolating emperors : spectacles of imperial suffering and the making of a Jewish minority culture in late antiquity / Raʻanan S. Boustan -- Martyrdom, Jesus' passion and barbarism / Jan Willem van Henten UR - http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=351135 ER -